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All the threats from all over the world. we may see it in america in nine days' time. i increasingly think we will. and it's happening across the rest of europe, too. i do honestly think it's about time the rich and famous stop talking down to people who want change. i repeat, we've had enough of failure. >> anne, what should mainstream parties do? if they do confront this reality that the programs that they propose in their eyes, they're trying to be responsible, so they propose a series of, you know, small ball incremental programs that won't bust the budget, that will try to take advantage ...

Globalization mean for them that their living standards have gone down. they have watched their country being taken into an endless series of wars overseas that arguably i would say have made things worse, not better. and all trump is saying is enough. we've had enough. we're sick of the rich getting richer. we're sick of foreign wars. we want to take back national democracy and control our borders. and it's very interesting, you know, with your previous panel, that a threatened elite choose to abuse this. but the more they abuse it, the more they encourage people to vote for it. we saw that i...

ayman mohyeldin reports on an air strike of a suspected hamas member has left more than 27 members of one family dead. more than 500 palestinians have been killed since the conflict began. 110 on sunday alone. this is the deadliest day yet. 13 israeli soldiers were killed as well. two of them, americans. the rockets continue to rain down on israel, and they say they have killed 10 soldiers. ban ki moon has called israel's actions atrocious. and security council has called for an immediate cease fire. the situation from hour to hour going from bad to worse. >> the situation does keep ...

The russian army killed over 200,000 people in the first and second chechnyan wars. this is not how germany and japan behaved after world war ii as they sought integration. and at home, russians were quickly developing a prickly resistance to outside interference, and russian politicians who urged integration with the west became marginal figures with tiny followings. looking at this record, the historian ann applebaum has argued, also in the "washington post," that the west fundamentally misunderstood russia. it saw the place as a western country in the making if only we had put forward the r...

>> i think it was a mistake for him to propose a referendum. >> a final thought. we look at the united states and it seems glum and gloomy and dysfunctional. >> a great choice. >> but from here it sounds like we should be more cheerful. >> oh, you can find gloom and dysfunction really in almost any part of the world nowadays. that's the beauty of the year 2013. >> i agree with that. >> martin wolf, ann apple baum, pleasure to have you on. up next, will syrian president bashar al assad commit to peace as secretary of state kerry asked this week? does he have any incentive to do so? right back. ...